Elizabeth Derryberry

Dr. Elizabeth Derryberry is an associate professor specializing in ornithology, in the Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee.

[2] After completing her doctoral thesis, Derryberry began a postdoctoral position in 2007 at the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University where she to studied lineage diversification in Neotropical ovenbirds and woodcreepers.

In 2012, Derryberry was hired as the Ken and Ruth Arnold Early Career assistant professor at Tulane University in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department.

In her 2018 study titled, "Ecological drivers of song evolution in birds: Disentangling the effects of habitat and morphology" she focuses on indirect (habitat-related) and direct (morphology-related) selection on mating calls.

Derryberry and her students have been involved in programs such as Kids U at the University of Tennessee, Fossil Fest at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, and Expanding Your Horizons with Techbridge Girls.